Nick Randolph made an interesting point. But first let me say that it’s great that the Perth .Net group are doing this at all. It’s a great move to develop a stronger community, and one that I would love to see happen in Adelaide some time. My problem with organising something like this is that I’m not in the city often enough, but I will try to encourage other people in the Adelaide user-groups to set up something like this. Back to Nick’s point though… In case you’ve just read through his post and are wondering what I’m talking about, … Continue reading Topics for coffee meetings

Paul Turner is an Adelaide guy I know well. He’s been a trainer at Kaz for quite a while, is on the local ACS executive committee with me and has been involved in the local .Net user-group too. He’s had a couple of major lifestyle changes in the last couple of weeks. Most significantly, he’s become a father, but also he’s become a Readifarian (and word is getting out!). All very cool, and Paul is justified in being excited. I think the two changes will work hand-in-hand very nicely, as Readify will probably have him doing a lot of his … Continue reading Paul Turner

Sometimes you want to make changes to your SQL Server objects (like tables, indexes, whatever), and you figure that it will be worth recreating them with a different set of options. One way of doing this is to generate a script, and then use a text manipulator to change the script in a way that will make it just what you want. But I quite like querying the object catalog views – you know, those tables like sys.objects. Here’s an example of a script which will generate a create statement for each of the clustered indexes on user-tables in my … Continue reading Scripting database objects a different way

It’s amazing how coffee can be conducive to community. Community is about sharing, it’s about developing passion and enthusiasm, it’s about friendship. And coffee is too. The age-old invite – “Let’s do coffee” – is a great way to sit down with someone. It’s cheaper and less formal than lunch, and it doesn’t stop you driving home like beer would. I think it’s really exciting that the Perth .Net Community of Practice (mainly Nick Randolph, Alastair Waddell and Mitch Wheat) have set up a weekly cafe catch-up. More about it here. Mauricio Freitas has often written about the group of … Continue reading Coffee and Community

Here’s the link: http://www.microsoft.com/sql/sp2.mspx There are so many cool things about SP2. It’s not just about bug-fixes, there are new add-ins for Office and SharePoint, and a few Feature Pack of goodies! Definitely worth checking out.